Walking away towards the future

Ruth Davis

When around 800 members of civil society walked out of the Warsaw climate conference on Thursday, observers asked ‘Why?’ And ‘Why now?’ What made this meeting different from all the others - and what did we hope to achieve?
For some, the answer wi...

UN Climate Conference - Warsaw, Poland11 - 22 November 2013

Climate change is accelerating without restraint – this is the key message of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Between November 11th to 22nd, 2013, Greenpeace joins the international community in Warsaw to make a plan towards signing a new international climate agreement in two years' time.

Roadmap to a successful Climate Agreement 2015

Warsaw has to lay the foundation for a fair, ambitious and legally-binding agreement in 2015 which transforms how people in all countries use energy. Governments must also commit to doing more to reduce emissions prior to 2020. This is in order to ensure that the world can still stay as far below 2°C as possible. Specifically, governments must:

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Warsaw, 11 November 2013 – Following the deadly storm which ripped through the Philippines as Governments and NGOs met in Warsaw for the UN Climate Summit, Head of Greenpeace Delegation, Martin Kaiser said:

For the last 53 days, every time one of my daughters climbed onto my lap I could not help but think about the children of the Arctic 30 . About how they must be missing their parents and how my colleagues must be missing them. About...

Celebrate all the ordinary people doing extraordinary things to safeguard our future.
My friends and colleagues — the Arctic 30 — remain in their cold cells for defending the Arctic, but they are not alone. The environmental...

Warsaw, 9 November 2013 – Before the UN climate conference in Warsaw begins, Greenpeace has projected, until early Sunday morning, messages on six coal power plants in Poland to urge the world’s governments to phase out fossil fuels which cause...

Air pollution presents an opportunity to revisit China’s high emission growth path. In the upcoming Warsaw negotiation, delegates need to prepare ground for further action from China.
Over the last year, air pollution has become,...